Having spent two years as a graduate student at the British Medical Research Council in Oxford, England, under the supervision of human geneticist Alan C. Stevenson, pediatrician Salvador Armendares returned to Mexico in 1966 and founded the Unidad de Investigacíon en Geńetica Humana (UIGH, Unit for Research in Human Genetics) at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS, Mexican Institute of Social Security). Armendares’ former graduate students, Colombia-born Mexican physician Fabio Salamanca and Mexican physician Leonor Buentello, soon began working with him on adapting, applying, and organizing newly acquired techniques to study chromosome abnormalities. The UIGH swiftly became a leader in medical genetics and cytogenetics within Mexico. Read more.

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